Quiet Sunday at Church

[MaryXYX]

Sunday morning was much as expected at my church.  It's a city centre church with a shrinking elderly congregation.  Except that we had a visitor - a young person just starting the FtM journey.  I hope he will come again, but there are other churches with more young people than we have.

[Jillian-TG]

Sunday morning was much as expected at my church.  It's a city centre church with a shrinking elderly congregation.  Except that we had a visitor - a young person just starting the FtM journey.  I hope he will come again, but there are other churches with more young people than we have.

Is your church generally welcoming to trans people? I attend a Pentecostal church which I know for a fact would not be accepting in any manner. They would try conversion therapy which is why I am in the closet at church. That hurts my heart because I hate lying and sneaking while presenting as a Christian. It feels so wrong.

I'm seriously thinking of finding a new church that is more inclusive.

[MaryXYX]

Not "generally welcoming" but "strongly supporting".  We have employed an outreach and support worker with specific responsibility to the transgender and gender nonconforming communities.  I think she's the only one of those!  She's spent two years caring for people who have been harmed in churches that use conversion therapy and she's burned out.

I hope you can find a better church.  I'm in the UK and in a city that has a few very supportive churches, a couple of large extremely hostile ones and many sort-of-OK.

[big kim]

I go to the Methodist Church in my hometown. No other trans people  there but no one has had a problem with me. I'm one of the youngest at68!

[MaryXYX]

This Sunday I skipped my church as the person down to lead prayers had previously included antisemitic comments.  I went to the local Methodist and got the impression I was welcomed as a visitor and my 'history' didn't matter.

[Jillian-TG]

This Sunday I skipped my church as the person down to lead prayers had previously included antisemitic comments.  I went to the local Methodist and got the impression I was welcomed as a visitor and my 'history' didn't matter.

That's nice to hear that you felt welcome at the new church. It's sad that so many churches would be unwelcoming and condemning towards transgender people who are just trying to live their lives authentically.